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Vladimír Birgus is a photographer, curator, historian of photography, professor and head of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava. As early as the early 1980s, he was one of the first Czech photographers who tried to make thoughtful use of the emotional and psychological effects of colour in subjectively conceived documentary images, which were produced in parallel with his black and white work. Birgus's photographs in the book are accompanied by only brief information about the year and place of their creation; the various ways of interpretation are entirely up to the viewer and their willingness to mentally engage. As the years pass, his works are more and more accompanied by the motif of melancholy and the principle of counterpoint, striving for the surrealism of impressive scenery as well as the application of metaphor and symbolism. In many confrontations of people with their environment or in response to various coexisting stories, exposed in a split second in the scenery of the lived present, he alienates the micro-stories of human existence. Photos: Vladimír Birgus Text: Štěpánka Bieleszová Translation: Derek & Marzia Paton Design: Petr Šmalec Publisher: KANT in cooperation with the Olomouc Museum of Art Hardcover, 179 pages ISBN-10:8087149750 ISBN-13: 978-8087149751 -
NEW!Exhibiton catalogue of the project UNADAPTED OBSERVERS. Outsiders and Outlaws. During socialism, the status, function, and aesthetics of photography were remarkably similar across all former socialist countries. In the Central European countries that were part of the socialist bloc, there was also a unique collective organisation in the field of photography, as most photographers worked within the system of photography clubs. However, some photographers have worked outside the system and independently, some because of a particular approach to their work, others because of censorship or even a ban on their work. The exhibition project »Outsiders and Outlaws« focuses on those photographers who stood out from the mainstream of photographic production in the former socialist countries. Participating artists: Andrzej Baturo (PL), Vladimir Birgus (CZ), Stane Jagodič (SI), Gábor Kerekes (HU), Ladislav Postupa (CZ), Rudolf Sikora (SK), Tone Stojko (SI), János Szász (HU), Bálint Szombathy (HU), Jindrich Streit (CZ) Publisher and producer: Photon - Center za sodobno fotografijo Curator, editor and author of the text: Dejan Sluga Design: Jure Legac Proof-reading: Deja Bečaj Printing: Birografika Bori Edition: 200 -
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SALE!Around thirty years ago, major social changes took place in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). During that time, some countries of the former socialist bloc also declared their independence. Slovenia was among them. On the occasion of celebrating thirty years of independence, we in Photon asked ourselves how photography recorded the time before these turning points – in the lives of ordinary people. With this exhibition project, we are not interested in fateful historical events and great personalities, but we want to offer an insight into everyday life and present some contradictions of the social system that built on a utopian vision of the future. To revisit the “family albums” of the former socialist countries, we are presenting some important photographers from the CEE region, who documented life in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. All of them, even with different formal and aesthetic starting points, share a subjective and often humorous view of banal and absurd everyday life.
Editor: Dejan Sluga Authors of the texts: Dejan Sluga, Dr. Primož Lampič Participating artists: Andrzej Baturo, Vladimir Birgus, Janez Korošin, Branko Lenart, Zora Plešnar, Anton Podstraský, János Szász, Lenke Sziláryi. Design: Jure Legac Translators: Melita Silič, Deja Bečaj Publisher: Photon - Center za sodobno fotografijo Year: 2021 Hardcopy, 71 pages Edition: 200 copies Language: English, Slovene Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm
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This exhibition catalogue encompasses three editions, of the exhibition project Concrete Dreams, presenting works by 19 photographers. It explores the heritage of industrial development conveyed through the photographic medium. In a narrower sense, the project explores how certain artists in the visual field see this heritage today and how they accept it as material for their artistic projects from the perspective of aesthetic relevance. In a broader sense, it also looks at how the photographic medium today can reflect the broader contexts of a particular place and time, which in post-war 20th century Europe promoted the development of industry and thus of certain architecture, which today is mostly abandoned or torn down or has changed its function. Authors: Dejan Sluga, Sonja Ifko Editors: Dejan Sluga and Špela Pipan Publisher: Galerija Photon Year: 2020 Hardcover, 72 pages Language: English, Slovenian ISBN: 978-961-95107-0-4 -
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SALE!The group exhibition at the Photon Gallery presents the activities of the photographic group “Fotogrupa ŠOLT” (Photo Group ŠOLT) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its foundation in 1963. It focuses on the period after the merger with Photo Club Ljubljana in 1968, when the group began to operate under the name “Fotogrupa ŠOLT – Ljubljana” (Photo Group ŠOLT – Ljubljana). The exhibition examines the importance of the group’s impact on the photographic scene in Ljubljana and Slovenia and presents its diverse international activities. It also highlights the photographic approaches of the 1960s and 1970s in the choice of motifs and techniques of the exhibited artists. The exhibition catalogue contains a selection of photographs and archival material shown in the exhibition, as well as two longer introductory texts. Presented are the works of seven photographers and members of the group, who were awarded the title of “Master of Photography” by the Photographic Association of Yugoslavia due to their high artistic and technical perfection and their frequent international exhi bitions. These are Oskar Karel Dolenc, Janez Korošin, Tihomir Pinter, Marjan Smerke, Tone Stojko, Jendo Štoviček and Joco Žnidaršič. The exhibition also includes the works of Sonja Zalar Bizjak, the only female representative of the group who received the title of “Master Candidate”. It is important to mention that in the more than thirty years of its existence, the Photo Group ŠOLT group has had a large number of members, among whom are other outstanding Slovenian photographers such as Dragan Arrigler, Marjan Dobovšek, Milan Pajk, Andrej Perko, Janez Pukšič, Lado Jakša, Herman Pivk and Arne Hodalič and many others. Stojan Kerbler, who later joined the Maribor Circle, should certainly be mentioned as one of the founding members. Publisher: Photon Curator: Špela Pipan Editor: Špela Pipan Authors of text: ddr. Damir Globočnik, Špela Pipan, Dejan Sluga Translation: Deja Bečaj, Špela Pipan Proofreading: Deja Bečaj Design: Jure Legac Print: R-Tisk, Junij 2003 Editions: 300 -
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SALE!Authors: Dragan Teodorović - Zeko Publisher: GMR Year of publishing: 2022 Hard cover, 141 pages Dimention: 26 cm ISBN: 9788690459001 Naklada: 50 -
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SALE!The Red Poppy Fields project aims to reflect on turbulent European history and causal relationship between ideology and economy, politics and war. It is examining causes and consequences for/of the World War I and its broader social, political and economic implications. Focusing on the photographic medium the curators and artists are presenting different views and draw parallels between past and present. The project brought together partners from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Associated curators: Michaela Bosakova (Bratislava), Katarzyna Majak (Warszaw) and Gabriella Uhl (Budapest). Curators: Dejan Sluga, Miha Colner Editors: Dejan Sluga, Miha Colner Partners: Galerija Photon, Cankarjev Dom, Baltic Gallery, Central European House of Photography, Association of Hungarian Photographers Publisher: Photon Year: 2017 Print run: 300 Hardcover, 123 pages Dimenzije: 24 x 21 cm Language: English ISBN: 978-961-92744-6-0 -
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SALE!Author: Stanko Abadžić Publisher: Kadar36 Year: 2017 Hardcover, 160 pages Language: english, croatian Dimenzije: 29 x 26 cm ISBN: 978-953-57655-9-2 -
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SALE!Stone Marks is the latest photo book by Roberto Kusterle, a Slovenian-Italian artist, who is devoted to non-representational photography as he preserves a kind of picturesque style, which always contains elements of odd, bizarre, surrealist. His photography does not document, but is a complete invention; it creates miz-an-scenes both in the studio and outside. Authors: Guido Cecere, Roberto Kusterle Publisher: Punto marte & Photon – Center za sodobno fotografijo Year: 2012 Hardback, 87 pages Dimensions: 28,5 x 28,5 cm Language: italian, english ISBN: 978-88-95157-38-2 -
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SALE!Author: Stanko Abadžić Publisher: Kadar36 Year: 2017 Hardcover, 160 pages Language: english, croatian Dimenzije: 29 x 26 cm ISBN: 978-953-57655-9 -
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SALE!A tribute to the 100th Anniversary of Bauhaus What is the significance of photo collage in these modern times saturated with fragmented visual images and the ubiquitous "special effects" of new technologies? Has this artistic process preserved its aesthetic relevance from the time of its creation about 100 years ago? An empirical view across the landscape of contemporary art provides a feeling that the interest in a collage in contemporary art has been growing again. Particularly in photography, works have been created that re-enforce the collage principle in the wider original contemporary practice. Project A New Vision of Debris is trying to answer the initial questions by presenting ten positions of regionally established female and male artists. At the same time, the project is an homage to the fabled Bauhaus school, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of its establishment this year, primarily to some of its protagonists who have taught photography and have established photo collage as a new and legitimate artistic practice. Authors of the text: Dejan Sluga, Katarina Manojlović Curator: Dejan Sluga Participating artists: Alexandra Baumgartner, Caroline Heider, Herbert Hofer, Marko Lipuš, Lilly Lulay, Iosif Kiraly, Kensuke Koike, Zuzana Pustaiova, Anita Witek, Metka Zupančič Editor: Špela Pipan Publisher and producer: Galerija Photon Year : 2018 Paperback, 35 pages Language: english, slovenian -
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The History of European Photography (1900 – 2000) is an international research project spanning the whole of Europe. The project’s main aim was to publish an encyclopaedia in English, divided into three volumes / periods, volume 1: 1900 - 1938, volume 2: 1939-1970, volume 3: 1971 - 2000. Each volume of the encyclopaedia is organized alphabetically by country. A study on the history of photography in each country is written by an expert on photography from that country. Alongside the main studies, each book contains extensive additional material, biographies of mentioned photographers, and timetables marking cultural, socio-political and technical photographic events in each country for a given period. There are be two types of indices in each book - an index of mentioned photographers and an index of other historical names and subjects. The book was published with a print run of 5000 copies per volume, each of the six volumes containing approximately 600 pages.
The price of one volume is 199,00€.Editor: Václav Macek Project Manager: Michaela Bosáková
Publisher: Central European House of Photography; FOTOFO and Eyes ON - Month of Photography Vienna www.sedf.sk ; www.eyes-on.at Year of publication: vol.1 2000,vol.2 2014, vol.3 2016 Hardcover Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 8 cm Weight: 4,5 kg Language: English
ISBN: Vol.1 978-80-85739-55-8 vol.2 978-80-85739-66-4 vol.3 978-80-85739-70-1
